Giuseppe Porcaro
Giuseppe Porcaro led the outreach activities of Bruegel, including communications, media, events, publications and hosted the Bruegel podcast series until October 2023. He was responsible for membership relations, supported the governance of the organisation, and was the board secretary. He also lead the Human Resources department and was part of the organisation's senior management.
Giuseppe's research interests lie with issues related to technological changes and how they affect policymaking and democracy, as well as to narratives about European futures and their policy implications in the current global geopolitical context.
Giuseppe joined Bruegel in 2014, and was the head of communications and events until 2019. He has been Secretary-General of the European Youth Forum between 2009 and 2014, UN and Global Affairs coordinator at the Youth Forum from 2007 to 2009, and previously worked at the World Bank in Kosovo and Paris as well as the European Office of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement. Giuseppe holds a Ph.D. in Geography of Development at the University of Naples "L'Orientale". He is also a science-fiction writer, and author of a novel about Europe and the future of democracy.
He is fluent in English, Italian, French, and Spanish.
Disclosure of interests
Featured work
The evolution of EU-China relations
A glimpse into the evolving landscape of Europe's engagement with China.
Can/Should robots look after the young and the old?
Exploring the potential, ethics and the willingness of people to automatise unpaid domestic work.
Understanding local government debt in China
How can China navigate the country towards a more sustainable and balanced economic future?
Skills-based hiring: tackling the labour shortages
What is skills-based hiring and how can it improve labour or skill shortages?
All work
Podcast
15 November 2023
The evolution of EU-China relations
A glimpse into the evolving landscape of Europe's engagement with China.
Podcast
08 November 2023
Can/Should robots look after the young and the old?
Exploring the potential, ethics and the willingness of people to automatise unpaid domestic work.
Podcast
18 October 2023
Understanding local government debt in China
How can China navigate the country towards a more sustainable and balanced economic future?
Podcast
11 October 2023
Skills-based hiring: tackling the labour shortages
What is skills-based hiring and how can it improve labour or skill shortages?
Newsletter
09 October 2023
Anthology
05 October 2023
Podcast
04 October 2023
Read with Bruegel: Ways of being
The search for more-than-human intelligence.
Podcast
27 September 2023
The state of play in EU-LATAM trade
Are we seeing a fatigue of ‘The Brussels Effect’?
Podcast
13 September 2023
Assessing the State of the Union 2023
In this episode, we look at the 2023 State of the Union address delivered by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.
Podcast
07 September 2023
Assessing the risks and prospects of European banking system
Giuseppe Porcaro and Nicolas Véron speak with Sharon Donnery about European banking supervision.